A Summit That Changed Everything
In the spring of 2012, co-founders Riley Conroy and Rachel Conroy were two days into a six-day traverse of Colorado's Elk Range when Riley's shell jacket split along the shoulder seam in a whiteout. They survived the storm huddled under a tarp, but Riley was furious — that jacket cost more than his first car.
When they got back to Carbondale, they didn't write an angry review. They drove to the library and started reading every materials science paper they could find on outdoor textiles. Six months later, they'd sewn a prototype jacket in Rachel's garage using a sourced GORE-TEX Pro laminate. They wore it on everything. It held.
By 2013, they had seven products, a small-batch manufacturer in Vermont, and a waiting list they hadn't expected. SeeThePeak had an ethos before it had a logo: every product would be tested above 10,000 feet, in real conditions, by real climbers. That standard hasn't changed.
Today we sell over 200 products across six categories, but we're still run by the same two people who nearly froze on a Colorado ridge because of a bad seam. Riley and Rachel think that matters — and so do the 40,000 adventurers who've trusted them since.